According to a recent post on Indiana Policy Review, "IndyGo’s proposed Red Line is unnecessarily expensive, will increase traffic congestion, and will produce more pollution and greenhouse gas emissions than the few cars that it takes off the road. IndyGo’s failure to consider the alternative of running frequent buses on shared traffic lanes, rather than dedicated lanes, seems more oriented to making itself eligible for a federal grant than actually improving transit service. IndyGo’s plan to use 120-passenger buses to carry average loads of 15 passengers is overkill. IndyGo’s goal of buying expensive battery-powered buses in the name of being “green” will actually do far more harm to the environment than good." "IndyGo should experiment with bus-rapid transit using standard buses painted a special color operating frequent service that stops roughly once per mile using traffic lanes shared with cars and other vehicles. The dedicated bus lanes, transit-priority traffic signals, and giant battery-powered buses proposed for the Red Line are foolishly expensive and counterproductive to IndyGo’s stated goal of improving urban mobility."